Getting LilyPond to wirk on Windows XP

From:

Roger Hurst

Subject:

Getting LilyPond to wirk on Windows XP

Date:

Mon, 24 Jul 2006 01:39:27 +0000 (UTC)

User-agent:

Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/)

I downloaded LilyPond 2.8.5 which I could not get to work. I tried downloading
2.9.12 last nite, which I had the same problems with. On both I tried to make
the instruction file appear on the desktop by saving it as C:\Program
Files\Welcome_to_LilyPond.ly. It did not appear on the desktop (which I assume
is because it did not contain an icon). Besides the LP icon on the desktop, an
icon My11249.. appeared. I tried dragging & dropping this on the LP icon, but
only another My11249.. appeared. I went into the HDD to scare up both LP &
this Welcome.. file, & dragged & dropped it onto the LP file (but obviously not
the desktop icon). An Adobe Reader PDF program was created, but I did not see
any place where I could do any inputting on there. Should I get LP up &
working, I would be more than glad to sponser LP to the tune of 25 Euros as I
have hundreds of ragged manuscripts I would love to put on Data CD's. Please
advise.